, contains significant graphic score excerpts and the mathematical foundations of the piece. It is available via Graphic Score Archive
(1922–2001) was not merely a composer; he was an architect, engineer, and wartime resistance fighter who fundamentally rewired the trajectory of 20th-century music. Among his legendary "stochastic" works, Pithoprakta (Greek for "actions by means of probability") stands as a monument of the avant-garde. Composed in 1955–56, this 50-second-long (or eight-minute-long, depending on your perception of temporal density) work for 46 string instruments, two trombones, and a xylophone is a sonic Big Bang. xenakis pithoprakta score pdf